ITB Berlin’s Cancellation Had Only a Mild Impact on Short-Term Rental Owners
Photo Credit: An image of a house key for an Airbnb listing by Katrin and Mo in the Berlin Mitte district right at Potsdamer Platz. Berlin short-term rental properties avoided sharp pain when ITB Berlin canceled its early March event, according to data from Transparent. Airbnb
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An upside for cities like Berlin that tighten short-term rental supply through regulation is that they're less prone to price and occupancy shocks when something like the trade fair ITB Berlin cancels at the last minute.
You might think that the managers of short-term rental properties in Berlin faced sharp pain when ITB Berlin canceled its early March event, Europe's biggest travel fair.
But you'd be partly wrong. New data suggests the impact of the coronavirus crisis was mild, even though Berlin was set to host about 50,000 visitors from abroad during the first week of March.
Berlin's occupancy and rates only had minor drops. Adverti
